Quite apart from the blatant corruption, if SpaceX’s biggest problem is that its rockets keep exploding, how is an AI that you have deliberately designed to give wrong answers supposed to fix things?
Thanks to gutting NASA and science budgets, space is another area where the US will soon cede the top spot to China. They have fully developed plans for a lunar base, deep space exploration, and will likely be the next to have humans on the Moon.
BTW - to anyone who tries to argue this isn’t outright corruption, via diverting and siphoning taxpayers money, I have NFTs and memecoins for a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to interest you in.
SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI startup, WSJ reports
Quite possibly. Not all breaches of contract are a result of corruption, but some could be, sure.
But that’s not my point. My point is that this isn’t relevant to SpaceX investing its money in some other company. It’s SpaceX money, not “government” money. They can waste it on stupid hitlerbots if they want to.
Is it though? I can’t be arsed to look it up right now, but I can’t imagine they’re just being given all that taxpayer money without there being reams of paperwork dictating how they spend it. And if they are, then that’s pretty corrupt as well.
Who am I kidding? Of course I can imagine that with the way things are being run over there these days.
Govt pays baker for a cake. Baker delivers cake. Baker can spend whatever’s left on whatever stupid thing they want.
Space X has been supplying the launches contracted.